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Israeli diplomats try to defuse furor over Temple Mount visit
Arutz Sheva ^ | 5/1/23

Posted on 01/05/2023 6:00:58 AM PST by Eleutheria5

On Thursday, the UN Security Council is set to meet in an emergency session to discuss the visit of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to the Temple Mount earlier this week.

Ahead of the session, it has been learned, Israeli diplomats have been making efforts to defuse the situation and ensure that the Council does not adopt a decision or even make a statement regarding the incident.

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: furor; gfysunsc; israel; templemount; unsc; zechariah123
GFYSUNSC. There is no situation. You're trying to turn a camp fire into a nuclear meltdown, but that's not our problem. It's yours.
1 posted on 01/05/2023 6:00:58 AM PST by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5
Any Israeli should be able to visit the Temple Mount at any time they wish. It's God's decision.

2 posted on 01/05/2023 6:09:37 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Zechariah 12:3
King James Version

3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Zechariah%2012%3A3&version=KJV


3 posted on 01/05/2023 6:27:29 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/diplomacy-politics-stories/1672792527-uae-china-call-for-un-general-assembly-meeting-over-temple-mount


4 posted on 01/05/2023 6:31:03 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Eleutheria5

What business is it of the UN, or any other entity, or person for that matter, if a Jew decides to visit the site where his ancestors had built a temple to God?

As far as I am concerned, every one of these people who object to such a visit, can go screw themselves.


5 posted on 01/05/2023 6:33:11 AM PST by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Red Badger

World War III or IV will be fought over that piece of real estate

And eventually the real Armageddon

Meanwhile I think Ezekiel 38 keeps drawing closer

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6 posted on 01/05/2023 6:35:54 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

May God bless us all to live to see it happen!............


7 posted on 01/05/2023 6:42:39 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Sure a lot of things these days

I’m expecting Iran to get wilder

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Surprised we haven’t heard more about ‘Peace and Security’.

But.....it’s on God’s timetable.


8 posted on 01/05/2023 6:45:31 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

The Parable of the Fig Tree............


9 posted on 01/05/2023 6:47:50 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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10 posted on 01/05/2023 6:50:16 AM PST by SJackson (nations that are barren of liberties are also barren of groceries, Louis Fisher)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Anyone in the country legally. You don’t have to be Catholic to visit the Vatican.


11 posted on 01/05/2023 6:53:25 AM PST by SJackson (nations that are barren of liberties are also barren of groceries, Louis Fisher)
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To: Red Badger

Indeed

And I believe it refers to Jerusalem over being interpreted as Israel

Additional evidence being that Jerusalem is the hottest issue with the most immediate reactions

Time will tell!

Thank you for bringing up the parable of the fig tree

It’s super important to remember!

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12 posted on 01/05/2023 6:56:55 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Eleutheria5

Imagine if the tables were turned and Muslims controlled Jerusalem again? Would the Jews have any access whatsoever?


13 posted on 01/05/2023 8:08:40 AM PST by Spok (They lie, we know they lie, and they know that we know they are lying. And still they lie.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Israel needs to do what other nations have done: nationalize contentious religious sites and lease them to “responsible lessees”. This does several things:

1) It eliminates the confusion of nations or religions claiming sites as “their territory”, like an embassy.

2) It allows the lessor (Israel) to select from various sects claiming the sites. For example, in Saudi, the Wahhabi sect shares power with the ruling family, though they want absolute power. When they get too troublesome about overthrowing the ruling family, they threaten the Wahhabi that all the mosques in Saudi, to turn them over to the Sufi sect. This terrifies the Wahhabi, so they behave themselves. Israel could make a similar threat, of turning over management of the al-Aqsa mosque (currently Wahhabi run), to the Sufi, or another sect.

3) Once nationalized, religious sites are “held hostage” against hostile nations that hate Israel. For instance, Muslim nations can no longer threaten Israel, or they might threaten to tear down al-Asqa and rebuild the Jewish temple on its site.


14 posted on 01/05/2023 8:13:50 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All he had was a handgun. Why did you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
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To: Spok

The tables WERE turned from 1948 to 1967. And the Jews hardly had access to the Kotel, let alone the Temple Mount. At one point, the British threatened to horse whip anyone who blew the ram’s horn (shofar) at the end of Yom Kipur services at the Kotel. Usually, that’s an elderly, revered rabbi who does the blowing, so imagine a burly sergeant swaggering around with his whip, just waiting for a chance to use it on an old man with along white beard. The Irgun in 1944 publicly threatened to kill any soldier who attempted to carry out this punishment, and the Mandate backed down.


15 posted on 01/05/2023 8:31:05 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David.)
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